Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 21:1 | Nowe the men of Israel had sworne in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of vs giue his daughter vnto Beniamin to wife. |
| 21:2 | And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till euen before God, and lift vp their voices, and wept sore: |
| 21:3 | And said, O Lord God of Israel, why is this come to passe in Israel, that there should bee to day one tribe lacking in Israel? |
| 21:4 | And it came to passe on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an Altar, and offered burnt offerings, and peace offerings. |
| 21:5 | And the children of Israel sayd, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel, that came not vp with the congregation vnto the Lord ? for they had made a great oath concerning him that came not vp to the Lord to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death. |
| 21:6 | And the children of Israel repented them for Beniamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day: |
| 21:7 | How shall wee doe for wiues for them that remaine, seeing wee haue sworne by the Lord, that wee will not giue them of our daughters to wiues? |
| 21:8 | And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel, that came not vp to Mizpeh to the Lord ? And beholde, there came none to the campe from Iabesh Gilead to the assembly. |
| 21:9 | For the people were numbred, and behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Iabesh Gilead there. |
| 21:10 | And the congregation sent thither twelue thousand men of the valiantest, and commaunded them, saying, Goe, and smite the inhabitants of Iabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children. |
| 21:11 | And this is the thing that yee shall doe, Yee shall vtterly destroy euery male, and euery woman that hath lien by man. |
| 21:12 | And they found among the inhabitants of Iabesh Gilead, foure hundred yong virgins that had knowen no man, by lying with any male: and they brought them vnto the campe to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan. |
| 21:13 | And the whole Congregation sent some to speake to the children of Beniamin that were in the rocke Rimmon, and to call peaceably vnto them. |
| 21:14 | And Beniamin came againe at that time, and they gaue them wiues which they had saued aliue of the women of Iabesh Gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not. |
| 21:15 | And the people repented them for Beniamin, because that the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel. |
| 21:16 | Then the Elders of the Congregation said, How shall we doe for wiues for them that remaine? seeing the women are destroyed out of Beniamin. |
| 21:17 | And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that bee escaped of Beniamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel. |
| 21:18 | Howbeit wee may not giue them wiues of our daughters. For the children of Israel haue sworne, saying, Cursed be he that giueth a wife to Beniamin. |
| 21:19 | Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the Lord in Shiloh yerely, in a place which is on the Northside of Bethel on the East side of the hie way that goeth vp from Bethel to Shechem, and on the South of Lebanon. |
| 21:20 | Therefore they commanded the children of Beniamin, saying, Goe and lie in wait in the vineyards. |
| 21:21 | And see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to daunce in daunces, then come yee out of the vineyards, and catch you euery man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and goe to the land of Beniamin. |
| 21:22 | And it shall bee when their fathers or their brethren come vnto vs to complaine, that we will say vnto them, Bee fauourable vnto them for our sakes: because we reserued not to each man his wife in the warre: for yee did not giue vnto them at this time, that you should be guiltie. |
| 21:23 | And the children of Beniamin did so, and tooke them wiues according to their number, of them that daunced, whome they caught: and they went and returned vnto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them. |
| 21:24 | And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, euery man to his tribe, and to his family, and they went out from thence euery man to his inheritance. |
| 21:25 | In those dayes there was no King in Israel: euery man did that which was right in his owne eyes. |
King James Bible 1611
The commissioning of the King James Bible took place at a conference at the Hampton Court Palace in London England in 1604. When King James came to the throne he wanted unity and stability in the church and state, but was well aware that the diversity of his constituents had to be considered. There were the Papists who longed for the English church to return to the Roman Catholic fold and the Latin Vulgate. There were Puritans, loyal to the crown but wanting even more distance from Rome. The Puritans used the Geneva Bible which contained footnotes that the king regarded as seditious. The Traditionalists made up of Bishops of the Anglican Church wanted to retain the Bishops Bible.
The king commissioned a new English translation to be made by over fifty scholars representing the Puritans and Traditionalists. They took into consideration: the Tyndale New Testament, the Matthews Bible, the Great Bible and the Geneva Bible. The great revision of the Bible had begun. From 1605 to 1606 the scholars engaged in private research. From 1607 to 1609 the work was assembled. In 1610 the work went to press, and in 1611 the first of the huge (16 inch tall) pulpit folios known today as "The 1611 King James Bible" came off the printing press.